Inspired by Slauma's answer, I was able to achieve what I was aiming for by using a protected setter. This persisted the value back to the database but didn't allow the value to be modified elsewhere.
Supplying an empty setter might be a possible solution (although then the property isn't readonly anymore, of course).
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